On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
On 2010-02-24 23:31, Peter A. Castro wrote:
Moding the makefiles to add a $EXE macro everywhere for these packages
would be a large-ish change and not something I'd really want to have to
perpetuate. However, I have gone through this "exercise" and will feed
back to the owner some "suggestions" on adding said $EXE macro usage ;-)
But that's not going to happen for this quicky fixup release. Instead,
I've taken the less intrusive (and arguable magical) approach of adding
"-s" to the install options for program installs (done handily via an
environmental variable override :-).
FWIW cygport's postinstall strip stage now looks for executable files without
any extension and checks to see if they are possibly .exe's, in which case
they are stripped (causing the suffix to be added). Not a perfect fix, but
it catches most of these cases.
I considered something like this, but it was simple enough to fix it with
a hack :-)
x3270, like many traditional X based applications, uses "imake"[...]
I'm sorry to hear that. Imake isn't so much traditional as downright
ancient. :-)
Ancient or not, it's still part of X and should work none the less. :-)
The man path macro (MANPATH) is being set to "/usr/man", based on the
"SystemManDirectory" macro, which, itself, is set based on the "SystemV4"
macro in the Imake.tmpl file. It's been a while since I hand-cranked the
"World", but I think this file is created by yet another utility and some
config (Imake.cf perhaps ?).
SystemManDirectory is defined to /usr/share/man in cygwin.cf, so I'm not sure
why you are seeing this. In any case, cygport will automatically move
/usr/man to /usr/share/man.
I'm not so sure. SystemManDirectory appears to be set based on SystemV4
in /usr/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:
...
#include <Imake.cf>
...
#include MacroIncludeFile
...
#ifndef SystemV4
#define SystemV4 NO /* SVR4 */
#endif
...
#if SystemV4
#define SystemManDirectory /usr/share/man
#else
#define SystemManDirectory /usr/man
#endif
...
SystemV4 doesn't appear to be set in any of the config/cygwin.* files.
While SystemManDirectory is set in cygwin.cf, it'll be overridden by the
above logic. I'm not sure why the above logic is there without any
#ifndef's around it, but that's what I see currently.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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